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Cameron Rogers, christened Robert Cameron Rogers, was born in Santa Barbara, California, to Robert Cameron Rogers and Beatrice (Fernald) Rogers on December 20, 1900. He majored in English Literature at Harvard, graduating in 1923. While at Harvard, he played football and tennis, and boxed. He also worked as an editor on the Harvard Advocate. His first published work was a biography of Walt Whitman, The Magnificent Idler .

Between 1923 and 1925, Rogers worked on the editorial staff at World's Work Magazine, and then as their book review editor from 1924 to 1925. From 1929 to 1935, he worked as the editorial manager at W.R. Grace and Company, and was the editor of The Grace Log (a review of inter-American affairs). In 1936, he traveled and lectured on on South America and Mexico; upon his return, he worked as a screen writer for various studios until 1942.

He was a member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants, the Sons of the Revoulition, the Authors League of America, the Pan-American Society, and The Stewart Society (Edinburgh, Scotland). His first wife was the writer Frances Colby (1904-1981), daughter of Bainbridge Colby, former Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, and the novelist Natalie Sedgwick Colby. His second wife, screenwriter Elisabeth Cobb, was the daughter of humorist, Irvin S. Cobb. He died January 15, 1971, in Santa Barbara, California.